Bernard Hughes
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Bernard Hughes is a composer and writer, based in London.
Articles By Bernard Hughes
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
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Onegin, Royal Ballet review - a poignant lesson about the pe...
It would be hard to find an antihero more anti than Eugene Onegin. The protagonist of Alexander Pushkin’s long verse novel of 1833 is a wrecker of...
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What a delight to see an almost full Queen’s Hall for a programme solely of...
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It’s been 50 years since the USA bowed to the inevitable and pulled out of Vietnam, in the midst of harrowing scenes of anguish and chaos. Apple’s...